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07-20-2009, 05:45 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Family portraits
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07-20-2009, 06:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | Nice pics Jerry... Oh and thats a nice gaggle of Roscoes you have there as well. I guess I need to dust off the camera and take some pics. |
07-20-2009, 06:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bakersfield, CA | | | VERY nice.
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07-20-2009, 07:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth TX | | | That is a SICK SICK collection!
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07-20-2009, 07:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Nice basses dude! 
Well photographed too.
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07-20-2009, 08:05 PM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | | Jerry,
Do you find those stands to be stable? |
07-20-2009, 08:17 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Thanks, fellas!
The stands are great...I love 'em. Very stable and incredibly portable. I've used them on windy-day outdoor gigs with no worries. Two of them fit in my little Mesa Boogie gig bag (talk about a great $35 investment) along with my 50' extension cord, power strip, and all the other little goodies and extras that OCD people like me take to gigs.  Here's the skinny if anyone is interested. |
07-21-2009, 08:11 AM
|  | Why don't ladders come with airbags? | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Billings, MT, USA | | Jerry,
I just have to say, 5520 is just awesome! It has so much good stuff going on in it, the awesome myrtle top, the Bart/Bart set up, the great coloring and split of heartwood/sapwood in the fretboard. It is just chalk full of win, except for that pesky C string  .
Awesome photos, and congrats on a beautiful family of Roscoe basses.
Justin
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07-21-2009, 10:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Nice, Jerry! The clean backgrounds go a long way in making the photos look pro.
Of course, I may be biased, but the spalted purpleheart with sapwood is just stunning. 
(I know it sounds silly, but for a photo, try lining up all of the tuner keys, or putting them all at 20° angles from the plane of the headstock.
I'd love to post my own family portrait, but that's assuming I own more than one Roscoe...! |
07-21-2009, 10:31 AM
| | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by davecheng  Nice, Jerry! The clean backgrounds go a long way in making the photos look pro.
Of course, I may be biased, but the spalted purpleheart with sapwood is just stunning.
(I know it sounds silly, but for a photo, try lining up all of the tuner keys, or putting them all at 20° angles from the plane of the headstock.
I'd love to post my own family portrait, but that's assuming I own more than one Roscoe...! | Yeah, you'd think someone with true OCD would have their strings measured precisely so that when the bass is in tune, all the tuner keys are lined up perfectly. |
07-21-2009, 11:02 AM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | You know, the tuners bugged me when I was framing the shots....but I figured I'd get grief from you Roscoeheads if I lined 'em up. Who knew I'd get grief for not lining them up. |
07-21-2009, 11:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada | | I hate it when a string is in tune with the tuning key near-90° to the headstock. I tell myself it's annoying because the string is more likely to go out-of-tune when placed in a gig bag, but maybe that's just my OCD-denial. |
07-21-2009, 06:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: London ON | | | Beautiful basses. I've had a bit of a love hate relationship with my two 3006 with Bart Bart but I spent a week playing them through head phones on a Tascam bass trainer. Sounded amazing again. Pics like these always remind me how lucky I am to have such great basses in my home. |
07-21-2009, 08:49 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Very nice Jerry! 
Those are just killer Roscoe's for sure! 
Of course the problem is that you set the standard to high with the first post. Now no one will be comfortable posting an average looking picture of their Roscoe(s) ............
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07-21-2009, 10:10 PM
|  | _ArchitecT | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dallas | | beautiful instruments Jerry!
excellent taste in top woods too
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07-22-2009, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Of course the problem is that you set the standard to high with the first post. Now no one will be comfortable posting an average looking picture of their Roscoe(s) ............ | Kinda like when the opening act on a show are incredible, and the main act somehow mysteriously fall ill, too ill to play that night....
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07-22-2009, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Kinda like when the opening act on a show are incredible, and the main act somehow mysteriously fall ill, too ill to play that night.... | I'll post . . . when I get mine. |
07-22-2009, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Well, here's my Roscoe family, unless you count my Fender Roscoe Beck. 
.....though not, anyway, on to the pic. 
Thats what it looks like on a cloudy day, seriously, dunno how they done it, but its a different colour every day, or light, from vibrant dark blue, to this, to smoked blue/grey, to lilac purple, its incredible...
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07-22-2009, 09:49 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | So, Darkstrike, based on a bit of observational skills, and some geographic/botanical knowledge, you live in the southwest of Ireland?
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07-22-2009, 09:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard So, Darkstrike, based on a bit of observational skills, and some geographic/botanical knowledge, you live in the southwest of Ireland? | You're a better botanist than I'll ever be!
Yessir! Thats exactly where I'm from!
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While I'm definitely no Dave Cheng, whose shots are just amazing, I do love photography and am learning more on the subject all the time. I had an hour or so to myself over the weekend, so I took the opportunity to play with the camera. Here's the SKBlings.
